Intro
G#m7 C# G#m7 C# (repeat once)
[Verse]
C# C#maj7
Drinkin' was forbidden in my Christian country home
C#7 F#
I learned to play the flattop on them good ol' Gospel songs
B G#7
Then I heard about the barrooms just across the Georgia line
C#
Where a boy could make a livin' playin' guitar late at night
C# C#maj7
Had to learn about the ladies; too young to understand
C#7 F#
why the young girls fall in love with the boys in the band
B G#7
When the boys turn to music, the girls just turn away
C#
to some other guitar picker in some other late night place
C# C#maj7
Yeah, I held on to my music; I let the ladies walk away
C#7 F#
I took my songs and dreams to Nashville and then on to L.A.
B G#7
Up to New York City, all across the USA
C#
I lost so much of me but there's enough of me to say (that my)
[Chorus]
F# G# C# G#m7 C#
home's -in Ala bama, no matter where I lay my head
F# Fm F# C#
My home's in Ala bama, Southern born and Southern bred
C# G#m7 C# G#m7 C#
[Verse]
C# C#maj7
What keeps me goin'? I don't really know.
C#7 F#
can't be the money the Lord knows I'm always broke
B G#7
could it be the satisfaction of bein' understood
C#
when the people really love ya and let you know when it's good
C# C#maj7
Well I'll speak my Southern English just as natural as I please
C#7 F#
I'm in the heart of Dixie, Dixie's in the heart of me
B G#7
and someday when I make it, when love finds a way
C#
somewhere high on Lookout Mountain I'll just smile with pride and say that my
[Chorus]
F# G# C# G#m7 C#
home's -in Ala bama, no matter where I lay my head
F# Fm F# C#
My home's in Ala bama, Southern born and Southern bred